Yang Yingqian helped the young man in front of him to the seat and sat down, I don't know whether it was panic or fear, the young man's body shook violently.

"Don't panic, speak slowly!" Yang Yingqian gently patted the young man's shoulder, and motioned to Sun Dayong to give the young man a bowl of hot soup to ward off the cold and suppress the shock.

The young man seemed to have run a long way, and after a few sips of hot soup in his hand, the trembling of his body calmed down a little.

"My lord, I am Zhou Guangwu, the younger brother of Zhou Guangwen of the Zhou family in Quanzhou, please go and save my eldest brother!" After a bowl of hot soup regained his strength, he knelt in front of Yang Yingqian again.

Yang Yingqian's face couldn't help but change slightly when he heard this.

"What happened to Guangwen?"

At this time, Zhou Guangwu's emotions were a little excited, and he swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva to try to stabilize his mind.

"Since the eldest brother transported the fifty stones of tobacco back to Quanzhou, he and my father began to work on the matter of going to sea, although it has rained a lot in the past few days, but the eldest brother is afraid of missing the itinerary and still insists on rushing to the Weitou Wharf with the goods."

"Who knew that the caravan encountered robbers in Lingyuan Mountain, most of the guards and men were killed, and the head of our Zhou family's guards, Li Yi, escorted my eldest brother to break through and escape into the mountains, and now there is no news, a scattered guard house fled home to report the news, and my father asked me to come and ask the adults for help!"

At this time, Yang Yingqian's face was already gloomy as ink, Lingyuan Mountain was close to Anping County, and it was only twenty miles away from Yongningwei, and it was on the official road, how much courage was needed to ambush a caravan with more than 20 courtyards, and how many manpower were needed!

"The area around Lingyuan Mountain has always been calm, haven't you heard of any caravans being looted?" Xie Shangzheng frowned and said.

Yang Yingqian stood up suddenly, turned his head and said to Sun Dayong: "Dayong, transfer 500 people from the officers and soldiers stationed in the Acropolis, follow me to Lingyuan Mountain!" Sun Dayong turned around and ran out after receiving the order.

"My lord, I'll be with you!" Xie Shangzheng on the side said.

Yang Yingqian nodded and turned his head to look at Zhou Guangwu.

"Can you still ride a horse?"

"Yes!" Although he was tired and almost collapsed, but in order to rescue his brother, Zhou Guangwu still stood up strongly, this Zhou Guangwu's character was more tenacious than his brother, Yang Yingqian couldn't help but secretly remember this young man.

The 500 soldiers were quickly assembled at the school ground, and with the continuous abundance of military spending in the past few months, Yang Yingqian not only changed the uniforms of the officers and men of the whole guard, but also equipped most of the soldiers with cotton armor and leather armor.

Although the rain was still falling, none of the troops on the school field moved, which was the discipline cultivated by months of queue training, and the guards who were scattered like sand a few months ago now had some shadows of the iron army.

Yang Yingqian and Xie Shangzheng rushed over on flying horses, and Ye Changqing, who had recovered from his injuries, also followed on a jujube red horse, with a narrow sword hanging from his waist.

Yang Yingqian saw that the team was in order, so he didn't delay any longer, and immediately ordered the troops to rush to Lingyuan Mountain.

Since the officers and men of the Yongning Guards are mainly foot soldiers, Yang Yingqian usually requires them to frequently carry out cross-country training with weights of more than 10 miles, and the endurance of all the Yongning Guards is still relatively strong.

Rao was like this, and most of the officers and soldiers were already a little out of breath after running for half an hour, so Yang Yingqian ordered the team to slow down the march.

Looking at the tired appearance of the soldiers, Yang Yingqian couldn't help but sigh in his heart, there must still be a cavalry team, fighting this kind of quick battle, the disadvantages of the infantry are too obvious, but the time is not yet ripe, and there will be a chance to establish a strong cavalry force in the future.

Yang Yingqian led the team along the official road all the way, and soon entered the hinterland of Lingyuan Mountain, walked a stick of incense, and a pile of boulders blocked the team's way.

Seeing this, Sun Dayong hurriedly beckoned the soldiers behind him to come forward to clear the road, and dozens of officers and soldiers rushed to the front of the boulder to move or pry into work.

"All the way here, although I see that this mountain is not steep, but it is a valley with high and low middle on both sides, and the official road is just sandwiched in the middle, if there are thieves ambushed in two highlands in advance, the people on the official road are afraid that it will be difficult to live!"

Xie Shangzheng sat on the horse and looked around at the situation, and said to Yang Yingqian worriedly.

Yang Yingqian did not reply, but also frowned and stared at the officers and soldiers in front of him who were clearing the earth and rocks.

At this time, a full three hours have passed since the caravan was attacked, and it is impossible to pursue the bandits, there will not be such a stupid bandit waiting for him to catch him, and now I can only hope that Zhou Guangwen has gotten rid of the bandits' pursuit and is hiding somewhere.

Ye Changqing, who didn't speak all the way, turned over and jumped off the horse at this time, paced to the mountains on both sides and looked back and forth a few times, and squatted on the ground and knocked the ground with his hands, behaving very strangely.

"Changqing, but what did you find?"

"Looking at the small ones, there is no sign of loosening on these two sides of the mountain, and the soil and rocks are hard, it is impossible to roll down so many soil and stones by a rainstorm, and there are several boulders weighing more than 100 catties in it."

"What do you mean?"

"Perhaps, when you open the road in front of you, you may know the truth," Ye Changqing said.

After about two cups of tea, the soldiers cleared a path through the falling earth and rocks, but only two people could pass at the same time.

A small flag officer pulled out the saber at his waist and carefully groped his way along the cleared road with five or six officers and men.

Not long after, an officer and soldier came back and ran to Yang Yingqian in a panic, I don't know what he saw, this officer and soldier was so nervous that he even forgot to salute.

"Big.... My lord, it's all dead! ”

Hearing the reply of the officers and soldiers, everyone was shocked, Yang Yingqian and several people dismounted, and Zhou Guangwu on the side heard the words of the officers and soldiers, and when he fell off the horse, he stumbled and cried and ran towards the official road over there.

Yang Yingpin instructed Sun Dayong to take Liu Daniu to lead a team of officers and soldiers to guard the surroundings in case someone sneaks up, while he and Xie Shangzheng took Ye Changqing through the passage that had just been cleared out to the opposite official road.

When they came here, the corpses were lying on their backs or lying on the carriage, and some of the corpses had several feathered arrows stuck in them, and the scene was very tragic and bloody.

It was the first time Yang Yingqian had seen this kind of scene, and he was a little uncomfortable physically and psychologically, but he forced himself to look at everything in front of him, because he knew that compared to what he would experience in the future, these things were just ordinary now.

The corpses on the ground are basically the Zhou family's nursing homes, and it can be seen from the situation at the scene that Zhou Guangwen's caravan did not come at all and reacted, and most of the nursing homes had already been killed.

The officers and soldiers behind rushed up one after another, and when they saw Zhou Guangwu standing aside in a distraction, Yang Yingqian sighed softly, and asked Ye Changqing to take a team of officers and soldiers to search nearby to see if there was any body of Zhou Guangwen.

Xie Shangzheng squatted next to the corpse in a nursing home, stretched out his hand, pulled out the feather arrow from the corpse, put it in front of his eyes, and looked at it carefully, as if he had found some clues.

Yang Yingqian also squatted next to Xie Shangzheng, and seeing that Yang Yingqian also came over, Xie Shangzheng hurriedly handed the feather arrow to Yang Yingqian.

"Your Excellency, you see, the arrow of this arrow is heavy, the shaft of the arrow is made of bamboo, the thickness of the front and back is the same, these feather arrows are not the standard feather arrows in my Ming army, nor are they used by ordinary hunters, but they are like ........"

Speaking of this, Xie Shangzheng seemed to think it was unlikely, and he hesitated a little at the moment.

"Big brother, but it's okay to say!"

"It's like a heavy arrow fired by a Japanese bow."

Hearing the word "Wokou", Yang Yingqian's heart couldn't help jumping slightly, the troubles along the coast of the Ming Dynasty have not stopped since the beginning of the Dynasty, and it is for this reason that so many coastal guards have been set up.

However, after more than 10 years of suppression and killing by Qi Jiguang of the Jiajing Dynasty and changes in Japan's domestic situation, it has been rare to hear of the invasion of the southeast coast by the Japanese invaders in recent years.

Even if there are Japanese robbers who have wandered to the vicinity of Lingyuan Mountain, but how did they know the news of Zhou Guangwen's caravan passing by, judging from the rolling stones of the official road and the traces of the battle at the scene, it is obvious that this incident was designed by someone in advance, so who could this person be?

Yang Yingqian's brows were unconsciously twisted into one place.

"My lord, there's a discovery here!"

Ye Changqing walked out of the woods not far away with a few officers and soldiers...........